had kept huge quantity of poppy straw in the room where fodder for the cattle had been stacked. PW-12 HC Sarbjeet Singh recorded the information, in the form of statement, under Section 154 of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the formal registration of the case and also to meet the requirement of Section 42(1) of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985. Thereafter, a raiding party was formed and the premises of the appellant were searched. On search, a bag containing 20 kgs. poppy husk was found in the room meant for stacking fodder (wheat straw). Two samples, each weighing 250 grams, were separated and sealed. The appellant was arrested. While in Police custody, she made a disclosure statement that she had kept concealed nine more gunny bags of poppy husk on the side of the Khad near Gurudwara Girgira Sahib, and pursuant to that disclosure statement, eight gunny bags, each containing 40 kgs. of poppy husk, and one bag containing 30 kgs. of poppy husk were recovered. From each of those nine bags, two samples, each weighing 250 grams, were separated and sealed in separate parcels. One sample from each of the ten bags was sent to the Chemical Examiner, who opined that the samples contained contents of poppy husk.
